Guest writer, Stanton Eddy
Wait a Vermont Summer Minute! We CAN do something!
WE CAN SAVE VERMONT!
Future Headline: "How in the world did Vermont do it?"
We can save incredibly large amounts of lives of our loved ones and our friends' loved ones.
We can drastically shorten the time our businesses will be shut down and our kids out of school and ourselves out of work!
But we MUST do the following immediately! Go ahead and post this everywhere you can, but DO NOT stop there! You MUST also EMAIL all your Vermont contacts that you have, plus your Legislators and the Governor!
https://governor.vermont.gov/contact-us/message
Why immediately? Have you heard about all those other countries, and even now some of our beloved fellow states, who did not start soon enough? Hospitals completely overwhelmed, having to choose who they can save and who must die. Vermonters DO NOT want to have to make that choice. Other countries and states started mandating Shelter in Place much too late. And we are only a few short weeks behind before the same happens to us.
We heard "Groups no more than 250." Then it changed to no more than 50. Then no more than 10. Do you see the pattern? You know what's next. In NYC and elsewhere, no groups allowed at all. Shelter in Place. Everything is shut down. And for these places, it will last a very long time, with great destruction to businesses, and astounding amounts of unnecessary loss of life.
Vermont must do this now. We love Vermont and we love Vermonters. We cannot wait for our Governor and Legislators, they are waiting far too long, and by then it will be too late.
You will be affected. Your family and your friends' families will be affected. So do this right now: SHELTER IN PLACE. Go out only for groceries and medical needs and essential workers only. No visits from anyone. Force your children and adult children to do this also. Force your parents too! Go out and get food only when you really start to run out. Food will be there. Only one person should go get it. Then get home, sanitize, and shelter in place.
We can only avoid catastrophe if ALL VERMONTERS do this! And we CAN do it! But you must spread the word. Spread it faster than the virus.
And after, when we see on the national news that they are searching for how VERMONT was able to so successfully minimize the damage to businesses and families, and our elderly and fragile made it through, and what should have been an inadequate number of respirators and hospital beds were somehow able to manage to save so many more lives than other states and countries…
We can all say that WE VERMONTERS did our part to Save Vermont!
Don't waste a minute. It took me less than an hour to write this, then create my SAVE VERMONT email group and select all my Vermont contacts. Cut and paste this email, it will take you less than a half hour, and you will then be saving MANY VERMONTER'S LIVES! Vermonter's inboxes should be flooded immediately with this email, from all their Vermont friends and family. I promise you that you have nothing better to do than save the lives and businesses of your fellow Vermonters. Including your own.
If I'm wrong about any of what I've written, I will change my name to Mr. Frickin' V.T. Idiot. I absolutely promise.
If we try this and it doesn't catch on, at least we can all say we didn't sit on the sidelines. We tried to Save Vermont.
And if it works, we will all tell the National News in unison that we Vermonters DID THIS TOGETHER! Because we care about every family, business, health care worker, and person in Vermont.
Violate company email policies and EMAIL this to EVERY VERMONTER you know.
Remember these Vermont sayings as you get started immediately:
"You can't keep trouble from coming, but you don't have to give it a frickin' chair to sit on."
"Vermont is our cow. But we have to do the milking."
With much love for all my fellow Vermonters. And you are a Vermonter if you are in Vermont at this very moment.
